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Mrs. Munsie from Rosamond, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse STEM Books

Help me give my students books from the STEM fields with diverse characters and authors.

  • $589 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

After teaching ESL abroad for the past 7 years, immigrating to the United States, and graduating with a California teaching credential, I am *finally* ready to welcome my first class of 21 students on American soil!

Take a peek inside our 4 walls and you will find the most richly diverse space where students are speaking multiple languages with multiple abilities across many races and ethnicities - all sharing one common goal - the pursuit of knowledge.

Our school is a K-5, Title I, public school, with a population of over 900 students with our entire school qualifying for the free breakfast and lunch program in a rural setting. With full bellies and eager minds, the students are ready to learn, engage, play, and grow. I am reaching out to all of you for help to ensure we have the right tools and supplies to have a successful year!

My Project

These books will continue to enhance the print-rich classroom that I strive to create. My classroom library is a place that my students really enjoy and I want them to start seeing themselves in the STEM fields. All of these books have been chosen with my students in mind- We live next to a NASA research center - which is the job market in our area. I want the students to start seeing themselves as scientists, engineers, and problem-solvers!

With these new books, my students will be able to see themselves in STEM careers through diverse characters that are written by diverse authors.

They will also be able to choose books that interest them. The best way to increase reading ability is to read more, and these books will continue to help my students grow stronger in reading. My students already have shown an astonishing interest in independent reading, and this project will only help enrich their experiences with the printed word.

Mrs. Munsie Rosamond Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Rosamond, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

21 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Little Taco Truck • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Boxitects • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Human Computer: Mary Jackson, Engineer (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
My Friend Earth: (Earth Day Books with Environmentalism Message for Kids, Saving Planet Earth, Our Planet Book) • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Zonia's Rain Forest • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
One Earth • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
What the Road Said • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
The Whatifs • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Rocket Says Clean Up! • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
Be a Maker • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
Bruce's Big Move (A Mother Bruce Book) (Mother Bruce Series, 4) • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 • Amazon Business $14.31 1 $14.31
The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Astronaut Training • Amazon Business $13.86 1 $13.86
Diggersaurs Explore • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Izzy Gizmo • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
The Little Engine That Could: 90th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (ages 5-8, introduction to Japanese-American artist and sculptor, includes activity for making a paper ... and teaching tools for parents and educators) • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $11.13 1 $11.13
What To Do With a Box • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Greta Thunberg (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 40) • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
The Amazing Life Cycle of Plants (Look and Wonder) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Builder Brothers: Better Together • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
If I Built a House • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95

Materials cost

$425.31

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $38.92

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$500.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.34

Total project goal

$588.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $588.95

2 Donors

-$294.48

Donations toward project cost

-$250.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.17

match offer

-$294.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$250.30

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.17

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